I personally have an issue with how to be a TD you need a higher quota in Dublin as compared to down the country.
Are Dubliners votes worth less?
Surely it's down to population spread....more people live in Dublin so more % of available votes required to be elected?
Surely it's down to population spread....more people live in Dublin so more % of available votes required to be elected?
So for example if you have 15,000 people in an area (in Dublin say) and they have one TD and down the country they have 10,000 people and they have one TD that means the people down the country are better represented.
Basically I'm trying to say Dublin should have far more TD's
Exactly!! Quotas are calculated based on the number of seats and the number of registered voters in the constituency.
.. if BL was elected on FPTP we would have a situation that the majority of the population would have preferred MR.
"Unfortunately our system gives us the governments we deserve."
I very slightly quibble. Yes, a different system would give different results. But it is not "the system" which gives us the governments we deserve. It is an electorate which takes a self-centred parochial view and a body politic which panders to this.
This is a huge issue in the local elections too. In Dublin, you need about 2,000 to 2,500 votes to get a council seat. In Carrick-on-Shannon, the last seat needed 400 votes.I personally have an issue with how to be a TD you need a higher quota in Dublin as compared to down the country.
Are Dubliners votes worth less?
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